Mr Marcel Ossai Aba who was slaughtered with his wife, Jacinta, at
Amaja in Enugu Ezike about eight days ago might have been killed by
kidnappers.
Aba was sleeping with his wife and three children penultimate week
when some unknown persons woke him up and broke his head with a cutlass.
The assailants later went into his wife’s room and removed her
one-year-old daughter who she was breast feeding before severing her
head.
The assailants left the scene of crime without removing any material or property.
However, investigations by Vanguard revealed that Aba and
his wife were killed after an abducted man from Anambra State was
rescued by the police in a bush near his house.
Those who spoke on the condition of anonymity at Amaja, informed Vanguard
that an unidentified man whose mouth was covered with a black cloth,
was seen in a bush which separates the village from Amaja with Adupi in
Benue State,
Aba lived at the border with his family.
It was gathered that another woman had found the abducted man and ran
back to inform her husband who consequently alerted members of the
vigilante group in the area.
The members of the vigilante were also said to have alerted the
nearest police station in the area, which sent detectives to free the
kidnap victim.
It was gathered that the abductors of the unidentified victim usually
visited him between 2 am and 3.30 am each day to feed him.
However, sources said that when the kidnappers visited the area where
they hid their victim in the bush, they were disappointed that the
people living nearby alerted the police men who untied their victim and
went to the nearby house to kill the couple.
An 11 year old daughter of the deceased, Chinonso narrated how her
parents were killed in cold when her parents were killed at the palace
of the Onyishi Amaja, Eze Nwidoko, where the people of the area returned
en- masse to discuss the strange development weekend said that the
assailants killed her father before killed her mother.
”We were sleeping in the night when my mother noticed that some people were flashing their torches outside but were not talking.
”As she was talking, the people came into our room and took her baby
who was sucking her breast away from her and threw him to
Ikedi, 5, before cutting my mother’s neck.
”The whole place was dark, We did not know when they left, After
waiting for sometime I went to my father’s room and saw that his head
was also cut, I used the lantern which was lit by mother before we went
to bed. Later I came out with Ikedi but the whole place was still dark,
”It was later in the morning that we called those nearby who started
shouting and calling others to come and see what had happened,” Chinonso
who was carrying the last child of her mother said.
The traditional ruler of Amaja, Igwe Ignatius Idoko, aka Atlas, said
that his community was the most neglected border area in the state,
”We have been appealing to the relevant authorities to establish a
police station between us and the people of Benue and Kogi states who
are our neighbours.
Igwe Idoko who took Vanguard on a motorcycle to the family house of
the deceased couple where it was discovered that the door leading to the
man’s room was opened by the deceased for his assailants while the one
leading to his wife’s own was broken has vowed that the community would
leave no stone unturned to get at the root of the matter.
Onyishi Idoko Igwe Idoko said that the couple had died for the
liberation of the people of Amaja just as Jesus died for the liberation
of mankind adding that the people would cooperate with security agencies
to ensure that justice was done.
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